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  • Volume 106, Issue 15

    • Volume 106, Issue 15

    New Plants

    McCain calls for suspension of federal gasoline tax

    April 21, 2008
    US Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the presumed 2008 Republican presidential nominee, called for a suspension of federal gasoline taxes from Memorial Day to Labor Day as an economic...
    General Interest

    WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Trouble lurks in climate bill

    April 21, 2008
    A climate change bill that could reach the US Senate floor in June is already generating its own heat.
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    HSE

    SPECIAL REPORT: More US EOR projects start but EOR production continues decline

    April 21, 2008
    Oil & Gas Journal’s exclusive biennial enhanced oil recovery (EOR) survey, p. 47 shows that the number of EOR projects in the US has increased compared with the last survey taken...
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    Refining

    Moving caustic injection point improves crude unit operations

    April 21, 2008
    Saudi Aramco was experiencing serious fouling and corrosion in the second preheat train in the crude unit in its Yanbu refinery.
    IOR/EOR

    SPECIAL REPORT: 2008 worldwide EOR survey

    April 21, 2008
    Click here to download a PDF of the 2008 worldwide EOR survey.

    More content from Volume 106, Issue 15

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    Production Operations

    Appalachian basin’s Devonian: more than a ‘new Barnett shale’

    April 21, 2008
    Recent reports on the successful development of Devonian organic shale reservoirs in southwestern Pennsylvanian and adjacent West Virginia have raised the speculation about this...
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    Discoveries

    Williston’s Bakken given 3-4 billion bbl recoverable

    April 21, 2008
    The Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Bakken formation in North Dakota and Montana, which has produced 105 million bbl of oil through the end of 2007, contains an estimated 3...
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    April 21, 2008
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    Exploration & Development

    Attention to future supply

    April 21, 2008
    Reports of major oil discoveries get quick attention from the general media these days, even when the discoveries aren’t really news or, for that matter, discoveries.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    Study: Biofuels impeding struggle against poverty

    April 21, 2008
    Burning food for fuel is hurting hungry people.
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    IOR/EOR

    Equipment/Software/Literature

    April 21, 2008
    New portable rupture disk installation aidThis new portable rupture disk installation aid—Test-Tel—works with rupture detector Flo-Tel+ to help ensure proper disk installation...
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    Drilling & Production

    Services/Suppliers

    April 21, 2008
    Edgo Group,AfyouniClick here to enlarge imageAmman, Jordan, has appointed Marc Mazen Afyouni group regional director for Libya, Algeria, and Chad. He replaces Maher Jadallah, ...
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    Gas Processing

    Field work cuts threat to suspended pipeline

    April 21, 2008
    Field experiments have reduced the likelihood of damage or failure of a suspended gas pipeline span as a result of pigging.
    Economics & Markets

    Energy prices climb

    April 21, 2008
    The front-month contract for benchmark US crudes jumped past $112/bbl Apr. 9 following a report that inventories of crude, gasoline, and distillate fuel fell to unexpectedly low...
    General Interest

    Managing a skills shortage

    April 21, 2008
    For professional workers considering transfer into the oil and gas industry, conditions cannot be better.
    Reserves

    Environmental challenges predominant theme at oil summit

    April 21, 2008
    Oil and natural gas exploration and development and its relationship to the environment was a predominant theme at the 9th Annual International Oil Summit Apr. 10 in Paris.
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    Drilling Operations

    Global offshore drilling spend to reach $80 billion by 2012

    April 21, 2008
    Over the next 5-year period to 2012, high oil prices will continue to drive oil and gas industry spending on offshore drilling to a total of $380 billion.
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    Reserves

    OGJ Newsletter

    April 21, 2008
    General Interest - Quick TakesAlberta adjusts ‘New Royalty Framework’The Alberta government, citing “unintended consequences” of its “New Royalty Framework,” is easing terms for...
    Economics & Markets

    McCain backs halt of SPR crude purchases

    April 21, 2008
    US Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), breaking with the administration of President George W. Bush, urged the White House Apr. 10 to stop purchases for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve...
    Companies

    US Senate adds renewable energy tax credit to housing bill

    April 21, 2008
    The US Senate approved an extension of renewable and alternative energy financial incentives as an amendment to a housing bill, HR 3221, by 88 to 8 votes on Apr. 10.
    Pipelines & Transportation

    WATCHING THE WORLD: Questions loom over ESPO line

    April 21, 2008
    How long have we been hearing about Russia’s East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline project? The debate has been interminable.
    LNG

    LNG arrives at two new US terminals

    April 21, 2008
    Two LNG tankers arriving along the upper Texas Gulf Coast within 5 days of each other are delivering commissioning cargoes for two new LNG terminals, one in Louisiana and one ...
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    Production Operations

    Oil funds: threat or opportunity?

    April 21, 2008
    The accumulation of large oil revenues, particularly since the early 2000s, has placed oil exporting countries among the world’s largest sources of capital.
    Capacities

    Impact of higher oil, product prices on US economy deepens

    April 21, 2008
    There are growing indications that high gasoline and diesel fuel prices are having an increasingly adverse impact on the general US economy, and federal lawmakers have started...